It is cold this morning. Make that a capital "C".

I don't know that it is the temperature so much as it is the wind chill.

The plant has had a horrible twenty-four hours. Fires inside some of the machinery to choking various other pieces of equipment have been the problems, but the battery condenser has been the primary culprit.

We have been deluged with seed blocks, but that is playing right into my plans for drawing down the seed inventory on hand. In the last week we have taken out 1,950,000 pounds. Since Monday we have take three quarters of a million pounds out. My estimates are that there still are a million and a quarter pounds remaining.

It has been interesting to watch my drivers attack this project. Of course their bogey is to get to go home for Christmas a day early!

I read a headline on the internet yesterday and could not resist reading the article. Many of you may have done the same. It was about a mathlete who had determined the square root of a computer generated two hundred digit number in seventy seconds, using only his mind.

I couldn't do that in seventy seconds with a calculator or a computer. Fred's old roommate, Gary could probably do it. He is a math whiz.

I am becoming frustrated with my Christmas lights. Initially they worked fine, then I suspected a faulty extension cord, then I focused on my timer. So far I have weed-ed out two strands of lights and re-sectioned my lights to get two smaller but closer to equal circuits.

If this doesn't work I'm plugging them into 220 volts. (There are 440 volts across the street.).

I am having a difficult time getting into the Christmas spirit. Oh, I enjoy the music when I'm in the office and I appreciate the light displays. But I am having a hard time getting into the gift buying. So far we have purchased only one gift. Luckily our list has been trimmed substantially by those who disqualified themselves by not participating in our Thanksgiving meal for the masses.

Bah Humbug!

I am still an advocate for a Christmas gift exchange where you had to make the gifts you give. I think that would make it more gifts from the heart. It is too easy to lay down the cash or as some people do it, the plastic, and buy someone something that they probably don't really want or need.

Earlier I was reading the comments on preachermike's blog and someone was trying to find where you could buy goat. One person reported a group of co-workers had purchased a goat and two chickens in their bosses name and the livestock would be given to residents in need who reside in third world countries.

I like that too.

Well, we finished off the pot of taco soup. Today is stew! Ummm! It is going to be pure torture to smell that aroma all day long. I hope it will be ready by supper!

Have a good day! Make it happen.

FATHER, I find myself struggling. Right me.